May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SPORTING.) [Surtees, Robert Smith] and Alken, Henry (illus.). The Analysis of the Hunting Field; Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters that Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season. Frontispiece, additional title and 5 plates, all hand-colored aquatints by J. Harris after H. Alken, wood-engraved illustrations, 4pp. advertisements at end. 8vo, original red cloth stamped in gilt and blind, minor shelfwear; bookplate to front pastedown and front flyleaf, pp. 157-58 with short tear to blank margin, marginal toning, plates bright; cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846

Additional Details

first edition, second issue in red cloth, with the earlier preface dated 1846. Bright copy. Tooley 470.